Derivation OMEGA - All Versions

Those of you who have been playing MineCraft since at least 2013 may remember a Texture Pack author named Levaunt, who brought us Derivation, a texture pack inspired by fantasy and RPGs. The texture pack made it's debut in 28 May 2011, with the final offical update being 24 Mar 2013. This texture pack was compliant up to version 1.5.2 of MineCraft. A little over a year later,  a work-in-progress version was uploaded 14 Sept 2014 with added textures, and the statement that this was to be Levaunt's final version of the pack:

"It has everything from a patch or two ago; flowers, hard clay, fish, etc. But keep in mind it's very buggy so I wouldn't suggest playing with it. This is mainly for people who want to continue the pack. Good luck!" - Levaunt (minecraftforum.net)

The stagnation of the Derivation texture pack had always been fine with me, since I spent most of my time playing an awesome stand-alone add-on called Better than Wolves by FlowerChild, eternallyset in 1.5.2. As BTW developed over the following, FC added more content to his project, and that required continued development of an add-on texture pack exclusively for the stand-alone mod. The Derivation BTW texture pack originated with Kezza of the official BTW forum 29 Dec 2012 for BTW 3.9.7, who continued to keep it current with BTW's development until 20 May 2014 the late update being for BTW 4.9 Marsupial. 

With BTW project still going strong, and no further updates to the Derivaton BTW texture pack, I took the inititive 27 Feb 2014 to carry on with the work on Derivation BTW in Kezza's absence until Jan 11 2018, shortly after the release of BTW 4.A4 Kiloblock Boon - a version which:

"added internal support for extended block IDs beyond the base 256 to facilitate future expansion of the mod" - FC (changelog notes)

With countless new textures added, and promise of many more in the future, it was clearly time for a revamp for the Derivation BTW texture support pack, and upgrade it to a full texture back in it's own right ( had been working on minor changes to the main texture back itself for personal use on the side since 1 Jan 2013) resulting in the birth of Derivation OMEGA which made it's debut in 26 Feb 2018.

Originating as a dark fantasy variant of Levaunt's Derivation (2011-2014) Derivation OMEGA was later uploaded for the Better Than Wolves community on the offical BTW forums. It has been available and maintained on the BTW forum since Feb 2018, and later uploaded in several versions to minecraftforum.net after feeling some nostaliga for the Minecraft mod Millenaire (2011 onwards) a mod I used to play before I got into BTW. The Millenaire mod had updated to Minecraft version 1.12.2 at that point, and I was faced with the daunting task of having to updated Derivation OMEGA - a texture pack set in MineCraft version 1.5.2 through a ton of expanded content upto 1.12.2

Thankfully, given that I was also maintaining a texture pack add-on for a BTW tie in - The Deco mod (original authour Yhetti, later taken over by Dawnraider) - a lot of the groundwork for a 1.12.2 version was already completed since that mod adds a bunch of later version Vanilla MineCraft textures as optional extras for BTW. Additionally, a lot of the BTW project content had potential crossover options, as later versions of Minecraft added similar features (notably after they had already been featured in BTW)

On the 8 Dec 2020 I uploaded six links for different versions of the Derivation Omega texture pack to minecraftforum.net, including four versions of 1.5.2 (Basic, CTM, BTW Pre Pack, and BTW with Deco Pre-Pack) which were available for almost a year, until futher textures added during work on the Millenaire Pre-Pack rendered them obsolete - incidentally, new textures were also added to the 1.5.2 versions, mostly the replacement of a handful of item textures, and inclusion of CIT for the CTM, and BTW versions.These versions have now been finalized, and uploaded here to Curse.